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Having less ‘real’ school work has been amazing. People always told me to “cherish my time in college” because once I started working in the real world, I would want to go back in time. I have never been the I-love-school type of person; I like to work, especially when it’s something I’m passionate about. Even though I just graduated, I would not want to go back to daily classes, homework, tests, constant deadlines, and minimal income, if any (well, I’m still getting through that last part, but only a couple more months as an unpaid intern).

With that said, I have had more time to get more involved in the things I love – cooking, blogging, reading, having weekends with no homework (well, besides a weekly report due), and listening to some of my favorite audio. Do you know who Dr. Wayne Dyer is? You should. My mom introduced me to his work a few years back and things have totally changed for me. Since I have more time to actually listen to things while I’m not studying or homework, I’ve started becoming more aware of a number of things… and it feels lovely!

Here he is… Such a wonderful person.

Anyway, since most of my days start at 4am, I am back home around 3pm, at the latest. My internship supervisor is so cool and usually let’s us leave early, so some days I’m home around noon. On those days, I take advantage of it and head out to the pool for a bit to enjoy the rare warm weather of Illinois (and that fact that I can walk to the apartment pool!). When I’m not prepping or cooking food, writing papers, cleaning, or doing other fun things, I’m gathering music.

I’m obsessed with music. One of my nicknames (thanks to my sisters) is DJ C-Dub; come to find out, there actually is a real DJ C-Dub… that sucker stole my name! The past week, I have downloaded some monstrous songs and blasted them in my car and in my apartment. Wanna know what I listen to? Anything from Young Jeezy, Five Finger Death Punch, Skrillex, LMFAO, Chris Brown, Chevelle… then the soothing voice of Dr. Wayne Dyer. If people heard all this (maybe they do), they probably think I’m an ADD music-aholic. And they’re right.

I also just got on Spotify! Hooray!

I had a dream last night. A dream about cheating on the Paleo challenge. What’s wrong with me and dreams about eating bad food? I’m not even craving anything bad and am totally cool where I’m at. In the dream, I ate… get ready… jelly beans. Ew, seriously? That’s not even a food I would ever imagine slipping into a sugar coma for. Then I lied about it and didn’t write on my recording sheet that I cheated. I’m a lying jelly bean eater cheater. Can you tell I have an exciting life?

One thing that is exciting is that I love my internship and working with young athletes. There’s this one kid there (he’s probably 10 or so) who told me he was too tired to do anything because he was up late talking to his girlfriend on Facebook. He then continued to tell me that they talked about marriage and that he wants 3 or 6 kids. I thought it was pretty hilarious and kept egging him on, but it was kind of creepy how serious he was about everything.

Random facts of the day:

-Blueberries are my new obsession. Expensive, but worth it if you only eat them one at a time. I even brought them to a movie with me.

-There are killer pigeons that live outside of my window. And they sh*t on my car like there’s no tomorrow…. and it kind of looks like blueberries. Sick.

-My legs feel like they got beat with a bat while I was sleeping. Thank you deadlifts, front squats, and squat cleans.

-Paleo challenge. Almost 2 weeks down, 5 more to go. Then time for the most epic float trip ever!

That’s all. I have to go get ready to deal with these little athlete munchkins for the rest of the day!

Mark your calendars! Paleo season is in full swing! As I said in my last blog, tomorrow is the official beginning of CrossFit Instinct’s Paleo Challenge – I’m throwing on my animal hide 60 days of hunting meat, foraging vegetables, nibbling on little amounts of nuts and seeds, and getting full of radiant health. Okay, not that extreme but I’m excited to tackle another challenge. Being the overenthusiastic and slightly-OCD person I am, I decided today will be the first day I stay 100% Paleo. Simply, I have been allowing too many cheats into my mouth. They’re sneaky like that.

Last weekend, I gave into peer pressure and inhaled some ice cream (chocolate chip cookie dough and mocha almond crunch to be exact- and it was freaking awesome) and then had a food baby for 2 days. Later in the week, since I was already on a downward slope, I decided that some dark chocolate covered almonds would make me feel better. WRONG. The food baby appeared again. Once a month, sweet cravings take over me and I am under their power for a few painful days…

But now, I’m on track and even bought Melissa Joulwan’s cookbook, Well Fed, and it is awesome; tons of easy recipes and ways to tweak everything. I HIGHLY suggest her book if you need some Paleo-spiration. I also bought the iPhone App, Fast Paleo for even more ideas and more excuses for me not to slip up and end up in a carb-coma.

Here’s a picture of one of the things I already made… Chopping, cooking, and cleaning are always done best when listening to Skrillex Radio on Pandora (hence the title; Skrillex + Skillet = Skrillet). It automatically makes you go faster and bust out some dance moves! Good thing I live up high and people can’t see me… I think.

It’s so good and the veggies are good alone or dipped in paleo mayo. I usually add weird things (like hot sauce) to the mayo and use that as a dip for everything.

cauliflower Rice

Here’s some cauliflower rice before being cooked. This stuff is the $h!t. This is a full head and it makes about 3-4 cups and tastes like heaven with coconut aminos. I’ll be making a ton of this and upping my cauliflower intake for life!

Well I made more stuff and took more pictures but my computer decided to not upload them so I guess that’s all for now. Hopefully more to come later!

Do you hear that? Oh, that’s just the pool calling my name. Time to go get my dose of Vitamin D! 😀

It’s the second weekend of my Whole30 and I’m sitting in a car dealership staring at a soda and candy machine. Know what? I don’t even want any of it. Not one craving. My bottle of water is more satisfying than the $1.75 bottle of instant insulin-spiking soda. SCORE.

Something else that helps is the fact that me and the boy did a hero WOD at FitBodies this morning. I don’t know if it was the fact that I felt nauseous on the way back from my 5th round or the throbbing rips in my hands that keeps me going. Or all the above. Doesn’t CrossFit sound sexy?

Speaking of sexy, I’m sporting my LifeAsRX knew socks with capris. Not something you see everyday. I expect a lot of staring again. Just like when I wore my neon green knee socks to the mall last night. I swear I’m not crying for attention- I’m just too lazy to change (ew, makes me sound dirty) and I don’t want my huge box jump scars and basketball scars to open up again. Knee socks=protection. And they keep me extra toasty warm. No goosebumps=happy.

Want to know what’s really annoying? Crowded places with crying screaming babies. Now I’m inside a hair place (not for me). Holycow. My ears feel like they’re bleeding. The WOD seemed easier than sitting here surrounded by too many people in a small space with little kids running everywhere. Good thing the hair place is in a grocery store. Think I’m gonna go buy some kale. Kale always makes it everything better. I need to stock up for the week so I can enjoy my amazing breakfast!

Alright folks, I’m out. Gotta drop some moola on some veggies. Dropping’ some green for some greens.

Song of the day: Skrillex- Bangarang. Love this song! Did the open WoD 12.4 to this so it reminds me of one hundred freakin fifty wall balls. BOOM.